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03.09.2008
Sarah Pallin’s Pre-Fab Speech

I hadn’t noticed this Washington Post piece about Palin's speech prep getting much attention. Interesting factoid: The McCain campaign had composed a speech for an unknown vice presidential candidate several weeks ago—well before Palin went down to Sedona. (So that's how it works.) Another interesting factoid: They had to nix the canned speech because it was “too masculine.” (How very feminist.)


--Franklin Foer

Posted: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 10:04 PM with 2 comment(s)

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adaglas said:

I'm crossing my fingers that they didn't make the swap with the teleprompter operator.

"From my many years as a senator from the great state of Connecti- I mean, uh, dammit!"

September 3, 2008 10:21 PM

benjamin81 said:

Having just watched part of said speech, it does make sense that it was pre-fab. There's a long recitation of Sarah Palin's biography, transitioning jerkily into an ad hominem attack on Barack Obama and some Republican red meat. She has her charm, but Biden's speech was markedly better delivered. And bringing up Harry Truman - who went from being dark horse running mate to president in less than a year - was probably not such a great idea.

September 3, 2008 11:22 PM